Sun G., S. Bai, Y. Guan, Q. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Liu, H. Liu, B. Goffinet, Y. Zhou, M. Paoletti, X. Hu, F. Haas, N. Fernendez-Pozo, A. Czyrt, H. Sun, S. Rensing & J. Huang. 2020. Are fungi-derived genomic regions related to antagonism toward fungi in mosses? New Phytologist 228: 1169–1175. pdf
In this article the authors “report two genomic regions in the nuclear genome of the moss Physcomitrium patens, previously Physcomitrella patens (Medina et al., 2019; Rensing et al., 2020), that contain mostly fungi-specific genes and mobile genetic elements. These two regions were identified in our genome screening for horizontally acquired genes in P. patens. Available evidence indicates that these fungi-specific genes are likely involved in the interaction between mosses and fungi. We discuss how these fungi-specific genes might have contributed to the defense against fungal and other microbial pathogens, as well as the loss of MFAs in mosses.”